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Corner Shield for Trunks. No. 243,332. Patented June 21,1331.

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ALFRED G. WAKEFIELD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' CORNER-SHIELD FOR TRUNKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,332, dated June 21,1881.

Application filed April 27, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown thatI, ALFRED G. WAKEFIELD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Corner- Shield for Trunks; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in corner-shields for trunks; and the invention consists in a corner-shield constructed with a projecting boss to protect the corners of the trunk from injury, and provided with a roller whereon the trunk may be rolled, and a lip to receive and retain in place the strengthening-strips of the trunk, all constructed and arranged as is more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanyingsheet ot'drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of my cornershield applied to a trunk Fig. 2, a side view, partly in section; Fig. 3, a plan or top view of the shield, and Fig. 4 an underside view of same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures. I

The purpose of this invention is to protect the corners of trunks, so as to enable them to resist concussion, as when roughly handled, and to combine with such guards rollers on which they may be moved or rolled from place to place, and also a lip to receive and retain the strengtheningstrips.

To that end I construct my trunk-corner shield of three plates, A, cast at right angles to each other, and with a projection or boss, B, protruding from the angle formed by these plates. One of the plates at is cast with an opening, b, into which opening is pivoted a roller, 0, and also to the plate a, at one of its edges, is formed a projecting lip, D. Into these plates A are formed holes cl to receive nails or screws.

Now, my corner-shield constructed in this way is secured to the trunk by placing the shield so that the corner of the trunk F will be received within the plates A, and so that the projection B shallbe, as it were, in continuation of the corner of the trunk; The strengthening or protecting slat E (having first had formed in it an opening to receive the upper part of the roller 0 when the shield is in place) lies directly in contact with the plate a of the shield, the outer edge of this strengtheningstrip being received into and protected by the projecting lip D on the plate a, so that the edge of said strip is preserved from injury, and at the same time the strip itselfis held in place. These strengthening or guard strips E are the ordinaryguard-strips of wood that run parallel with the length of the trunk on its bottom, near its edges.

Now, when this shield is applied to the trunk in the manner before stated, it will be seen that not only is the corner of the trunk protected by the projecting boss B, but at the same time the rollers for the trunk are affixed to it, and the strengthening strip E is secured in place and its end and edge protected from injury and liability of being ripped off. The shield is retained in place on the trunk by nails or screws, which pass through the holes 01 in the plates A.

Of course it is obvious that these shields will be cast to fit corresponding corners of the trunk.

Having thus described my inven tiou, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A device for protecting corners of trunks, &c., provided with three plates, A, united to gether at right angles with a boss, B, in continuation of the angles, in combination with a projecting lip, D, roller 0, and protectingstrip E, substantially as and for the purpose described.

ALFRED G. WAKEFIELD.

Witnesses G. M. PLYMPTON, H. L. WATTENBERG. 

